Occupy Boston is the most-publicized protest movement in some time. Yet a recent poll found 53 percent of Americans neither support nor oppose the movement. WGBH News looked at the organizational issues Occupy has had to struggle with to assess its success to date.

In WGBH News' Occupy “report card," one particular comment caught our attention: Alex Ingram, a spokesman for Occupy Boston, said the movement had to get the message out to the suburbs. We sent reporter Cristina Quinn to Weymouth, Mass., a suburb that walks a political tightrope, to see where the movement might be headed next.

The liveliest moment of Democratic Senate debate on Tuesday night came when the five Democrats who want to take on Sen. Scott Brown were asked a yes or no question: Whether Occupy Boston, while fighting for a more permanent encampment in Boston, be allowed to build a winterized tent on public land.

Both sides stated their case in a packed room at Suffolk Superior Court. The judge said she would hand down a decision by mid-December. Activists left chalking up what they believed to be another legal victory, at least in the short run.

On Nov. 30, members of Occupy Boston engaged in a confrontation at a Harvard forum with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who said he had no choice but to oust that city's occupiers from City Hall. The protesters woke up the next morning and went straight to court for a hearing on an injunction that would require the city to give notice before taking any eviction action.

A dramatic sea change appears to be taking place at the Occupy Boston encampment downtown. For the first time, we are witnessing the depth of problems, including drug use and violence, directly from the protesters.